2011 Festival of the Grape Harvest (LS) – April 16

One again I’m showing a little prejudice towards LS, but you are more than free to contact us with events on other shards. Anyways, this weekend, Saturday, April 16, 2011, it will be the 2011 Festival of the Grape Harvest on Lake Superior.

EM Autolycus has posted this invitation:

Join us out front of Empath Abbey this Saturday, April 16th, for 2011′s Festival of the Grape Harvest. The monks have processed the latest harvest of grapes, and are happy to pull out their finest vintage in celebration.

Let’s take advantage of their selfless giving of booze alms; get drunk, throw some darts, and other miscellaneous acts of silliness…

When: Saturday, April 16 at 7pm CST / 8pm EST

Where: Out front Empath Abbey and the Ye Olde Winery, Trammel. Gate provided from New Haven bank.

via: Lake Superior Events

Lake Superior and the New Magincia Lottery

Great Lakes and Atlantic had upwards of three-four times as many New Magincia lottery tickets sold as Lake Superior, but being that I didn’t have time to track any shards but my home shard, I’m going to present you with some data about Lake Superior and the New Magincia lottery.

This was personally verified by me up until about 30-45 minutes before Lake Superior went down for the normal daily maintenance and then came back up again, with the lottery winners being notified. It’s possible that somebody came in at the very last minute and bought a large number of tickets, but I think it’s unlikely.

By my calculations, there was a total of 2,728,896,000 gold spent overall. That’s 2.7 billion in gold. Not bad.

Both Facets – Northern Plots (N1, N2, N3, C2, C3, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7)
* 6,761 Tickets Sold
* Average of 281 tickets per plot

Trammel – Northern Plots (N1, N2, N3, C2, C3, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7)
* 5,304 Tickets Sold
* Average of 442 tickets per plot
* C-3 was the most popular plot with 452 tickets sold
* N-2 was the least popular plot with 436 tickets sold

Felucca – Northern Plots (N1, N2, N3, C2, C3, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7)
* 1,457 Tickets Sold
* Average of 121 tickets per plot
* C-2 was the most popular plot with 132 tickets sold
* E-5 was the least popular plot with 93 tickets sold

Both Plots – Southern Plots (SW1, SW2, SW3, SW4, SW5, SE1, SE2, SE3, SE4, C1)
* 1,330,643 Tickets Sold
* Average of 66,532 tickets sold per plot

Trammel – Southern Plots (SW1, SW2, SW3, SW4, SW5, SE1, SE2, SE3, SE4, C1)
* 1,150,125 Tickets Sold
* Average of 115,012 tickets per plot
* SE-1 was the most popular plot with 227,051 tickets sold
* SE-2 was the least popular plot with 74,979 tickets sold

Felucca – Southern Plots (SW1, SW2, SW3, SW4, SW5, SE1, SE2, SE3, SE4, C1)
* 180,518 Tickets Sold
* Average of 18,051 tickets per plot
* SW-1 was the most popular plot with 58,265 tickets sold
* SW-4 was the least popular plot with 6,129 tickets sold
* SE-2 and SE-3 had 6,939 and 6,891 tickets sold respectively
* SE-1 had 12, 667 tickets sold

Some Notes
* I saw Felucca numbers jump 10% – 20% on some plots in the evening before the plots were awarded.
* I was surprised that SE-2 on Trammel didn’t have more tickets sold. It will probably be close to the moongate once they move it, and will be near the new bank, as well as being near the site of the original bank. That happens to be where most of my runes for Magincia were marked.

I think the most interesting thing to me was how popular SW-1 was in Felucca, and SW-2 was in a distant second place, compared to SE-1 on Trammel, with SE-4 being in a distant second. I can partially attribute that to the HEMP guild – they look to own a few of those SW lots, and may have done a guild buy targeting a specific area, the SW spots.

As for me, I had bought a total of 388 tickets on Lake Superior, and won two houses, both in the northern section of Felucca. I bought tickets on every single plot on both facets as that was what I could afford. I was just hoping to win one and participate in New Magincia somehow. So far it is shaping up to be unique and not like Luna, although that may change once the additional phases of New Magincia’s reconstruction commence, such as the new vendor bazaar. I’m seeing a couple of museums on the Trammel side, and quite a few private homes (or guild houses) on both.

If somebody would like more details, or per plot details, I’d be more than happy to provide them for Lake Superior. If YOU have data you’d like to share about other shards, feel free to contact us and I’ll post them.

Lake Superior 2011 Rares Fest Ends, Bag Winners Announced

The Lake Superior 2011 Rares Fest has officially closed, although vendors will be around for a few days.

The Petal from the Golden Lotus of Heaven contest winners were officially announced.

Bag Decoration Pictures #1
Bag Decoration Pictures #2
(There are some repeats in #2 – bags that had been messed up before were fixed)

Mokey Fraggle annouced the winners:

3rd place – 10 points each
“Spring Swing” by Magdalaine (Lake Superior) – 10 points
“Basket in Grass” by Carmelina (Europa) – 10 points

2nd place
“Puff the Magic Dragon” by Robber (Great Lakes) – 13 points

First place, Winner of the Petal of the Golden Lotus From Heaven
“A Japanese Easter Bunny” Yukimas (Atlantic) – 21 points

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Any corrections needed, please contact one of us.

Lake Superior 2011 Rares Fest – Golden Lotus Contest Pics

That Petal from the Golden Lotus of Heaven contest that is currently going on during the Lake Superior Rares Festival?

There have been some outstanding entries. A few were messed up due to server issues, but hopefully they will be corrected tomorrow (UPDATE: Check Part 2 link for bags that were messed up). There is still time, check the details at the link above.

Part 2 is here

Here are the early entries:

Lake Superior - Petal from the Golden Lotus of Heaven contest, Part 1

Lake Superior - Petal from the Golden Lotus of Heaven contest, Part 2